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The gambit would, at a stroke, deter Kennedy from invading Cuba, cement Moscow's alliance with Havana, and shift the world strategic balance.
The California Banking Association argued KYC would deter millions of Americans from opening bank accounts.
A Susan Sontag essay riffs on the Kosovo crisis, concluding that it is a just war to deter "radical evil" and that the allies will fail if they don't oust Milosevic.
President Clinton issued a classified directive in June 1995, Presidential Decision Directive 39, which said that the United States should "deter, defeat and respond vigorously to all terrorist attacks on our territory and against our citizens."
We could change the tax code to deter their behavior (and balance the budget) by slapping a 15 percent tax hike on every American who has not procreated and married.